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Eight years after Poe's death, the rumor has spread that Poe was beaten and died as a result of the resultant head trauma.
At the instigation of a woman, who considered herself injured by him, he was cruelly beaten, blow upon blow, by a ruffian who knew of no better mode of avenging supposed injuries. It is well known that a brain fever followed... --Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "Autobiographic Notes: Edgar Allan Poe," Beadles Monthly, February 3, 1857
Eight years after Poe's death, the rumor has spread that Poe was beaten and died as a result of the resultant head trauma.
At the instigation of a woman, who considered herself injured by him, he was cruelly beaten, blow upon blow, by a ruffian who knew of no better mode of avenging supposed injuries. It is well known that a brain fever followed...
--Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "Autobiographic Notes: Edgar Allan Poe," Beadles Monthly, February 3, 1857